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mircea_popescu: problem is the whole stack is in c++ and i'm not about to manage language interfaces.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform tell you what, one time i separated 863 teenaged females into 10 groups of 5 tons each within a 1% tolerance. the process consisted of me walking through the group and pointing. to my advantgage, they were lightly dressed. to my disadvantage it was night time.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: provided of course ben manages to not get himself fired from his own company over the buffer incident :D
mircea_popescu: nevertheless, they're not worth actually paying money.
mircea_popescu: are you going to argue to the merits or just gonna keep trying to squeak by on technicalities ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform do you think you can find any full hour of "work" on say github actually justifiably worth minimum wage ?
mircea_popescu: i have no idea why and wherefore brogramer gets to make minimum wage. seriously now.
mircea_popescu: bitches gotta stand for the whole day, yo! and get hit on by all the losers too!
mircea_popescu: i don't get it, the chicks should bag groceries and make ~10.5 and the dudes should dfick around with javascript and make more than 9 ?!
mircea_popescu: 30 an hour ? it's scandalous. who the fuck pays code monkeys over minimum wage ?!
mircea_popescu: i'm actually willing to bet that his buffer sat there quietly, only flew once he hit enter.
mircea_popescu: that may be, but i dun think it's a philosophy matter.
mircea_popescu: contained \n, only went once i pressed enter at the end.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform it's trivial to have it set up properly. looky here : 1
mircea_popescu: this sort of thing is what made phantomcircuit derp famous.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes is there the luxury of us educating you on matters of security in that ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform notice he uses -tron now. prolly should charge ip.
mircea_popescu: ;;later ben_vulpes you gotta learn how to use this buffer thing.
mircea_popescu: if they take off currency controls, it's going to go to a 10 or something and that's that.
mircea_popescu: afaik, the ukrs were actually the only people who had jews in govt etc after the ww1.
mircea_popescu: well yes, but the maneuvers were a joint thing with the ukrainiansa
mircea_popescu: so the trashing pilsudski administered to the oh so clever & brave bolsheviks doesn't count for the ukrs ?
mircea_popescu: well... you mean as part of the commonwealth or somehow before ?
mircea_popescu: but colorful enough to support the notion of a bona fide ukr nation ?
mircea_popescu: incidentally ascii_field what's your take on petliura ?
mircea_popescu: ascii_field yea well... go to the party night meetings more often, comrade.
mircea_popescu: not so different from how this works in cuba. yes you can "buy" "mercedes" in cuba, for govt vouchers.
mircea_popescu: but the car cost ~1mn worth of turkey dollars to make.
mircea_popescu: just like tesla "can be bought" for 100k in soviet govt vouchers
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla nah, the cultivar is a hybrid, called something like fragaria x or w/e.
mircea_popescu: hence in poker, you're like a pinball machine on tilt.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field pinball. the idea there is you can get the machine in a state where it "pays" you for free.
mircea_popescu: anyway, maybe it works this way. in my mind it's very stricrtly related to blowing a roll tho
mircea_popescu: not at all. tilt is when you play poorly / too agressively and LOSE YOUR OWN MONEY.
mircea_popescu: this, incidentally, is how the catholic church was born.
mircea_popescu: "Hey man it was a fun jab, and try not to take things so seriously. It's hyperbole and it's part of who I am and how I get a statement across."
mircea_popescu: "The Node/JS ecosystems are experiencing a Cambrian explosion in technology, with all that implies. If you don't like it, don't worry. It probably won't take 20 million years this time to settle in on the "best" ways of doing things."
mircea_popescu: The only thing you can do is npm shrinkwrap and never update your dependencies ever again << doh.
mircea_popescu: surprisingly, the end-of-life of a place which everyone uses as a mine is... being a garbage dump
mircea_popescu: everyone there is either a midwesterner or else "only here for a few years to make enough money to run off to argentina / send back home to laos"